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Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, FocusWriter is a text editor, having a hide-away interface to provide a distraction-free environment. It is open-source and cross-plaftorm, working on Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Among others, it has support for TXT, RTF and ODT, allows the users to set timers and alarms, it has auto-save and spell-check, it supports some new themes and is traslated in more than 20 languages.

The latest version available is FocusWriter 1.5.3, which has been recently released, coming with a few fixes only: